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Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
Planning for your retirement involves consideration of many aspects of your practice and is as important as planning for a medical career. Understanding what is required from a professional and medico-legal perspective can help doctors in making the transition from ‘practice to private life’ a smooth one. Factors which need to be considered include notifying patients, notifying other professionals, identifying patients for follow up, disposal of medical records and prescription pads, along with the business requirements of winding down a practice.
1 Educational activity hour
Professionalism
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
In an increasingly litigious medical environment, an awareness of the medico-legal hazards associated with practice is vital for GPs. GPs are involved every day in a wide range of issues, such as patient confidentiality, consent to treatment, dealing with complaints, providing reports and the keeping of medical records. Any of these may give rise to difficulties if the GP is unaware of the principles of the correct medico-legal approach.
1 Educational activity hour
Professionalism
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course provides an update on consent from a medico-legal perspective.
1 Educational activity hour
Professionalism
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on the application of dermoscopy for suspicious skin lesions. Participants will acquire knowledge in using the dermatoscope as a tool to assist in the identification and management of benign non-melanocytic lesions commonly seen in the practice. This course identifies the four most common types of benign non-melanocytic skin lesions commonly seen in daily practice. It explains in detail the use of dermoscopy in diagnosing seborrheic keratosis, dermatofibroma, vascular tumours and sebaceous hyperplasia and includes numerous dermoscopic images. The course explains the factors influencing the prevalence and morphology of these benign lesions. The course concludes with three management rules to follow in order not to miss melanoma that mimics benign non-melanocytic tumours.
3.5 Educational activity hours
5.5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This webinar will give an overview of current knowledge and best practice in relation to managing difficult patient situations. (note: this webinar is for Avant members only).This webinar panel will consist of Avant experts and cover topics of:Managing a difficult patientTypes of difficult patientPatient complaints and responsesEnding the doctor patient relationship
1 Educational activity hour
Professionalism
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This webinar provides an update on the professionalism issues surrounding prescribing to friends, family and staff. There are a number of reasons why providing care to close friends, family members or colleagues can be unsafe or inappropriate, yet in some cases providing care is unavoidable. This webinar discussion will cover these issues and discuss strategies to manage them.
1 Educational activity hour
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on identifying specific skin conditions suitable for facial peels and how to evaluate the use of skin conditioning and retinoids in aesthetic medicine. Tools to assess skin conditions are introduced including the classification of photo damage. The wound healing process and understanding of skin anatomy are featured before moving into understanding what a chemical peel is, and expected reactions and complications from chemical peels. The course concludes with a detailed description of how to perform a chemical peel.
4.5 Educational activity hours
5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on the application of dermoscopy for suspicious skin lesions. Participants will acquire knowledge in using the dermatoscope as a tool to assist in the identification and management of malignant non-melanocytic lesions commonly seen in the practice. This course focuses on malignant non-melanocytic skin lesions and explains in detail the use of dermoscopy in diagnosing keratinocyte carcinomas, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Common patterns and clues in pigmented and non-pigmented BCCs are discussed and demonstrated with numerous clinical and dermoscopic images. Bowen’s disease and SCC are included. The dermatoscopic/histopathologic correlation of skin lesions and the most important differential diagnoses of keratinocyte cancer are outlined. Dermoscopic images and pattern analysis are used throughout the presentation to identify the patterns and clues of non-melanocytic lesions.
4 Educational activity hours
6.5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This eLearning course provides an update on general prescribing issues. Content covers:keys to safe prescribingcommon medication errorsprescribing and record-keeping requirementscommunication issues in prescribingelectronic prescribingoverprescribingThis course is part of a prescribing series that also covers Part 2: Opioid and other drugs of dependence.
1 Educational activity hour
0.5 Performance review hour
Professionalism
Date: 01/01/2026 Location: Other
This course focuses on the application of dermoscopy for suspicious skin lesions. Participants will acquire skills in using dermoscopy on different facial lesions to identify structures for naevi or melanoma. This course focuses on the dermoscopy of facial lesions to assist with the detection and diagnosis of dermoscopic structures for naevi or melanoma. The topic is divided into four categories; pigmented flat facial lesions, pigmented mucosal lesions [melanocytic and non-melanocytic], non-pigmented neoplastic lesions, and non-pigmented non-neoplastic lesions. Each category is discussed in detail, and dermoscopic images are used throughout the presentation to identify the differential diagnoses of skin lesions. The pattern analysis method is outlined in this course to identify different lesions on the face.
4 Educational activity hours
5.5 Performance review hours
Professionalism
Ethical practice